The gray is iron or ferro-magnetic material.
If you don't believe magnets can go into equilibrium with no effort, then look at my video made 10 years ago. It is on our web site, lafontegroup.com. The title is, bfixture.
See attached animation of new Square Wave Permanent Magnet Motor.
Work done down, work done 90 degrees to first work, then equilibrium, theN restart of cycle. Mark is fabricating at this very moment.
I have never been so excited about a design as I am with this sweetheart.
Will also up load to web page sometime today with work/energy flow chart also.
Butch
PS That rotor gets pulled down by 20 NIB grade 48 magnets!
It rotates from the pull on the rotor magnets to 4 groups of 4 magnets in a magnetic gradient.
sorry, but the rotor is going to stop at the third set of stator magnets where all four magnets on the rotor are attracted to the four magnets in the third position on the stator, and not go on to the forth stator magnet position where there are two repulsion fields and two attraction fields. it may well be that the forth position is equilibrium ( two opposing fields and two attraction) but it has to be entered from a position of all rotor magnets in attraction with the stator. Hence "sticky point"....
Quote from: acp on July 20, 2007, 01:22:02 PM
sorry, but the rotor is going to stop at the third set of stator magnets where all four magnets on the rotor are attracted to the four magnets in the third position on the stator, and not go on to the forth stator magnet position where there are two repulsion fields and two attraction fields. it may well be that the forth position is equilibrium ( two opposing fields and two attraction) but it has to be entered from a position of all rotor magnets in attraction with the stator. Hence "sticky point"....
ACP,
We are testing 4 different layouts of magnets to get the best result with respect to the situation you spoke of. We do have two designs that allow all 16 stator magnets to pull to a seperate repulsion set of magnets for equilibrium.
We will post all four.
Thanks Butch